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by efficax 5y ago
oh i understand the cascade, but i also have 25k lines of css to deal with and deadlines. Yes, I can track down the full cascade and craft a selector that will specify a rule for just this or that element, or I can slam a !important on ther
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by efficax 5y ago
> Private non-profit universities are essentially run by their tenures faculty Nonsense. They're run by their boards and by professional administrators. The faculty have been steadily losing real influence since the MBAs started get
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by efficax 5y ago
For one thing, they're no good in a recording studio.
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by efficax 5y ago
pretty sure apple lives and dies by their iPhone sales. Sure, they sell a ton of computers, but it's nothing compared to their phone revenue. I wouldn't be surprised if there were activist investors who think they should drop the
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by efficax 5y ago
Try and price out a PC with those specs, it will come in around $6k minimum, but much more power intensive and very very loud
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by efficax 5y ago
theoretically a hash lookup is O(1) so should perform better if the key is unique, but you give up a lot of other features (like partial matches, searching, and range queries). Binary trees are the ideal in a world of a pure von Neumann mod
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by efficax 5y ago
That's what I mean by insulation. Bagging a "famous" engineer is a political and PR move and they get a lot of freedom to define the role, something that most of us can't do
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by efficax 5y ago
Staff moves at that level are a lot different than your average joe, huge paychecks involved and lots of insulation from the product org
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by efficax 5y ago
Coral Castle outside of miami, one weird man's project. https://coralcastle.com/
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by efficax 5y ago
Amphetamines
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by efficax 5y ago
Ran a mail server for about 20 years, recently switched it over to fastmail so I didn't have to worry about sender rep, or getting hacked. Didn't realize until I switched what a weight on my mind it was having that server out ther
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by efficax 5y ago
Tech companies are run by product managers these days and fixing a bug is not a product priority if the buggy software is still making money
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by efficax 5y ago
You can run Linux at my company if you want, there are probably two dozen or so engineers who do so, out of a few hundred. I'm still a fan of my mac personally, although i run plenty of Linux servers. I know that it's not at all u
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by efficax 5y ago
> As software developers, we always strive for better tools but rarely consider font as such. A quick search of hn shows the opposite: it seems like we're always talking about fonts and releasing fonts and comparing fonts. I practic
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by efficax 5y ago
Why does everyone want to make a macOS ux clone for linux that will stop being maintained in 5 years
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by efficax 5y ago
but I'm right!
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by efficax 5y ago
It's not likely that Europe would move to traditional cab trucks if they relaxed the length rules since they still have to deal with the tighter road and parking conditions of European infrastructure
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by efficax 5y ago
Been a customer for at least 10 years. Simplicity itself!
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by efficax 5y ago
when the power is off it's perfectly safe to put your hand in the disposal
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by efficax 5y ago
> That Mississippi of all places legalizes marijuana means that it will probably be legalized in all 50 states within a year or two. Doubtful! The state legislatures in these states are generally more conservative than the population an
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by efficax 5y ago
no
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by efficax 5y ago
Sony is about to sunset Playstation Plus and Now and merge them into a service that will try to compete with Xbox Gamepass, and to do that you need games.
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by efficax 5y ago
Nietzsche's point has nothing to do with linguistic proficiency. Basically no Greeks of the attic era would have learned any other languages, except maybe a trader or merchant. Even Aristotle could not speak any other language than Gre
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by efficax 5y ago
I'm obese (bmi 31, i'm a big guy) but active: i walk several miles most days, lift weights, rock climb, and use the rowing machine, adding exercise on to my walks about 4 days a week. Still, it's easy to gain weight and hard
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by efficax 5y ago
Do any of these "decentralized" and "end to end" encryption communication systems actually solve the fundamental problem which is that you have to trust the person you're communicating with to not give up the conten
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by efficax 5y ago
it's not evidence... is the thing...
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by efficax 5y ago
no way to answer such a question without real experimental research, and not even sure what you mean by "see", we dont "see" most virus mutations because most mutations don't survive... and certainly aren't s
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by efficax 5y ago
This guy appears to also believe that the omicron variant is not a natural mutation but a lab-made version as well. BLAST does not contain all genetic material from all viruses or organisms in all of the natural world. There are countless
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by efficax 5y ago
When your "matter of principle" is avoiding a vaccine you're rationalizing an irrational choice through the mask of a "principle". There's no principle involved (personal liberty? do you also refuse to pay taxe
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by efficax 5y ago
In Italy at least, this just isn't true https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14... The rich stay rich over hundreds of years, for the most part. I would guess that squandered fortunes are the

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